A pair of edu-Twits meet and greet in Red Rock Country. @RaleighRPinskey @SedonaKathy
Raleigh R. Pinskey and Kathy Howe compare notes on their trips to Dubai in Kathy’s Learning Center in Sedona.
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What is your Unique Media Hook (UMH) ala @RaleighRPinskey ?
PR and Social Media Branding Expert Raleigh R. Pinskey (shown at Sedona Hilton Boardroom) invites us to a challenge:
Hmmm… Here is one of mine:
“Save the Dream. Help Homeowners KEEP their Homes.”
Here is another:
“Social Media Success Rests on the Technology of Human Beingness.”
@RaleighRPinskey and @HiltonSedona survey ballroom for social media confab
Keynote speaker Raleigh R. Pinskey and Hilton e-Commerce Manager Sheryl Curtis take stock of the ballroom where social media aficionados will gather January 14 – 16 at the Social Media Mastermind Live conference in Sedona, AZ.
Sedona Social Media Mastermind Planning with @SedonaPies @SedonaHilton @RaleighPinskey
What a day! I had fun brainstorming the Social Media Mastermind
conference in Sedona in
January with Sheryl Curtis (Sedona Hilton), Mari-Lyn Harris (Sedona Pies
) and Raleigh R. Pinskey (PromoteYourself.com
). Mari-Lyn (center) gave each of us a
Naughty Pie and Raleigh could hardly wait to get in her licks!
ballroom and dining facilities in pre-conference planning tour. Lunch at the Sedona Hilton was fabulous! (Watch for a Yelp review tomorrow.)
What a day! I had fun brainstorming the Social Media Mastermind
conference in Sedona in
January with Sheryl Curtis (Sedona Hilton), Mari-Lyn Harris (Sedona Pies
) and Raleigh R. Pinskey (PromoteYourself.com
). Mari-Lyn (center) gave each of us a
Naughty Pie and Raleigh could hardly wait to get in her licks!
ballroom and dining facilities in pre-conference planning tour. Lunch at the Sedona Hilton was fabulous! (Watch for a Yelp review tomorrow.)
The Van is paid off.
We decided to cash in what little stocks we had in order to get some
debt paid down. So in one fell swoop the Kia Sedona is now paid in
full and the baby emergency fund is fully funded.
Grass is overrated; give me cacti
I've had a love/hate relationship with our yard this year; I love having one but hate the constant mowing and weeding required to keep it looking decent. I also hate that "decent" here still isn't anything close to my ideal.
When we moved in last summer, I noted our neighbor's gravel and concrete backyard and wondered why anyone would opt for that in the suburbs. I still prefer grass over concrete and asphalt, but after a week in the Southwest, where the terrain was even more beautiful in person than in pictures, I'm more ready than ever to ditch the Northeast and move out West.
What I find most appealing about Southwest terrain, specifically the Sedona area, is that the plants and trees have a lot more personality; whether growing off the sides of cliffs, along the highway, or in people's yards -- each one stands out as an individual in the high desert landscape. I especially love cacti and prickly pear cacti, my favorite, are all over the place out there.
That Salomé was similarly seduced by Sedona means moving West isn't just wishful thinking any more. We've already started looking into what it would take to relocate, figuring it could most likely happen within the next 2-3 years, though next summer isn't completely out of the question if the real estate market here turns around by next Spring.
If the appeal doesn't fade and it remains a serious consideration over the next couple of months, it will affect both our individual and joint plans for the next three years. Mine was getting a tweak already on the heels of my job change that starts tomorrow, as I need to make a decision about prioritizing my own writing vs. things like Spindle and Free Verse, the latter of which becomes even more appealing if we move out of this area.
It's funny how quickly life can change. A couple of months ago we quietly noted the 1st anniversary of buying our house, fully expecting to be in it for at least another 5 years, and in Bloomfield for longer than that. Between the sharp increase in taxes this year, though, and the surprisingly podunk feel of this town in general, the siren call of Sedona is especially strong.
Chapel Holy Cross Sedona
Iconic building, by a student of Frank Lloyd Wright, Marguerite Staud. A beautiful surprise in Sedona.
I want to live in Sedona
Whenever we go somewhere new on vacation, we like to explore the area and play "What if...?", looking at things from the perspective of possibly relocating. Isla Mujeres has long been the fantasy, "win the lottery and move anywhere" destination, but Sedona has officially replaced it.
Not even on our original itinerary for this trip, several friends noted it as a must-see so we changed our schedule from a drive-by on the southern rim of the Grand Canyon and a night in Williams, to a night in Sedona instead. After staying at the amazing La Posada and driving by the Wigwams in Holbrook, our scheduled destination the next night (doing some backtracking), we canceled that and added a second night in Sedona, sight unseen. After our first night there, we added a third night, cutting our Vegas stay in half.
After exploring the Verde Valley region, including Slide Rock State Park, Cottonwood and Jerome, plus Sedona itself, we fell in love and the "What if...?" game morphed into "When could we....?" planning. We even checked out an open house and grilled the realtor with a bunch of
questions, finding the school system and low taxes especially appealing. It would be a big cultural change -- I can count on two hands how many black people we saw in the area, and out there, Hispanic primarily means Mexican -- but unlike areas of the Northeast where that's been a deal-breaker, the regional differences are more appealing.
It's still a fantasy at this point, but unlike Isla Mujeres, it's a realistic and attainable one that doesn't require winning the lottery. It could also happen as soon as next summer...
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hope you enjoy this series of desktop background wallpapers.
these images are created for a 1.6:1 aspect ratio. the image resolution is 2560x1600, use a setting such as center or fit if you are using a different resolution.
this series is comprised of images i like and personally use as my desktop backgrounds. if there are other images in my stream you'd like to see as backgrounds send me a note. prints are available in limited quantities here.
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hope you enjoy this series of desktop background wallpapers.
these images are created for a 1.6:1 aspect ratio. the image resolution is 2560x1600, use a setting such as center or fit if you are using a different resolution.
this series is comprised of images i like and personally use as my desktop backgrounds. if there are other images in my stream you'd like to see as backgrounds send me a note. prints are available in limited quantities here.
